Human Tissue Act 2004

14 Remit

(1) The following are the activities within the remit of the Authority—

(a) the removal from a human body, for use for a scheduled purpose, of any relevant material of which the body consists or which it contains;

(b) the use, for a scheduled purpose, of—

(i) the body of a deceased person, or

(ii) relevant material which has come from a human body;

(c) the storage of an anatomical specimen or former anatomical specimen;

(d) the storage (in any case not falling within paragraph (c)) of—

(i) the body of a deceased person, or

(ii) relevant material which has come from a human body,

for use for a scheduled purpose;

(e) the import or export of—

(i) the body of a deceased person, or

(ii) relevant material which has come from a human body,

for use for a scheduled purpose;

(f) the disposal of the body of a deceased person which has been—

(i) imported for use,

(ii) stored for use, or

(iii) used,

for a scheduled purpose;

(g) the disposal of relevant material which—

(i) has been removed from a person’s body for the purposes of his medical treatment,

(ii) has been removed from the body of a deceased person for the purposes of an anatomical, or post-mortem, examination,

(iii) has been removed from a human body (otherwise than as mentioned in sub-paragraph (ii)) for use for a scheduled purpose,

(iv) has come from a human body and been imported for use for a scheduled purpose, or

(v) has come from the body of a deceased person which has been imported for use for a scheduled purpose.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1)(a) and (b), the activities within the remit of the Authority include, in particular—

(a) the carrying-out of an anatomical examination, and

(b) the making of a post-mortem examination.

(3) An activity is excluded from the remit of the Authority if—

(a) it relates to the body of a person who died before the day on which this section comes into force or to material which has come from the body of such a person, and

(b) at least one hundred years have elapsed since the date of the person’s death.

(4) The Secretary of State may by order amend this section for the purpose of adding to the activities within the remit of the Authority.

(5) In this section, “relevant material”, in relation to use for the scheduled purpose of transplantation, does not include blood or anything derived from blood.